The Global Methodist Church (GMC), a conservative denomination formed from a schism with the United Methodist Church (UMC), is focusing on its own growth and mission. The schism, largely driven by ...

Founded in 1821, the very year that Protestant worship was legalized in the Florida Territory, the First United Methodist Church of Pensacola proudly proclaims itself the Mother Church of Florida ...

Multiple South Carolina churches are taking their parent denomination to the S.C. Supreme Court to try to get out from under its jurisdiction and keep their church holdings intact. The lawsuit was ...

A new Methodist denomination launched in May as the United Methodist Church splinters More than 300 churches permitted to leave by regional conferences at recent annual meetings South and Midwest see ...

The dispute, which some critics say tests the church’s autonomy, reached the Texas Supreme Court on Wednesday for arguments. By Ruth Graham The Texas Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in ...

The upcoming celebration of the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea is a reminder to Christians that "we profess the same faith, and thus have the same responsibility of offering signs of ...

Splintering in the United Methodist Church following disagreements over theology and church policy — including dealing with LGBTQ+ rights — fueled exodus of thousands of churches. Many congregations ...

The United Methodist Church’s splintering has prompted Methodism’s ecumenical association to formalize its guidelines for admitting new members. “In cases where an applicant church was historically ...

On the exemplary fate of Nonconformity in Wales. In November 1904, R. B. Jones, a visiting Baptist preacher, held a campaign in Penuel Baptist Chapel, Rhosllanerchrugog, a mining village in northeast ...

Church unity is an accomplished fact in Canada. Meeting at Port Arthur, the Presbyterian General Assembly of Canada voted to join the federation which the Methodists and Congregationalists had already ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — ‘You don’t throw away the relationship of your sibling because you do not agree on an issue,’ said a former bishop in the autonomous Methodist Church in Kenya. NAIROBI, Kenya ...

The United Methodist General Conference that ended May 3 approved a plan for full communion with Episcopalians, pending approval by the 2027 Episcopal Church General Convention. But what about the ...